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PYJWT(1) User Commands PYJWT(1)

NAME

pyjwt - Python implementation of JSON Web Token

SYNOPSIS

pyjwt [options] <command> [options] input

DESCRIPTION

Encodes or decodes JSON Web Tokens based on input

OPTIONS

--version
show program's version number and exit
-h, --help
show this help message and exit
-n, --no-verify
ignore signature verification on decode
--key=KEY
set the secret key to sign with
--alg=ALG
set crypto algorithm to sign with. default=HS256

PyJWT subcommands are: encode and decode.

encode
use to encode a supplied payload
decode
use to decode a supplied JSON web token

EXAMPLES

Decoding:

pyjwt --key=secret decode json.web.token

pyjwt decode --no-verify json.web.token

Encoding requires the key option and takes space separated key/value pairs separated by equals (=) as input.

Examples:

pyjwt --key=secret encode iss=me exp=1302049071

pyjwt --key=secret encode foo=bar exp=+10

The exp key is special and can take an offset to current Unix time.

AUTHOR

Jeff Lindsay <progrium@gmail.com>

This manual page was written by Daniele Tricoli <eriol@mornie.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

Dec 2018 pyjwt 1.7.0